USPTO Patents Application 10762114

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IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE

pplication of

Peter L Kellerman et al.
Application No.: 10/762,1 14
Filed: January 21, 2004

For: SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING SIMOX IMPLANTS

USING AN ION SHOWER

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Application Number

10/762,114

Filing Date

January 21, 2004

First Named Inventor

Peter L. Kellerman et al.

Group Art Unit

1763

Examiner Name

Rakesh Kumar Dhingra

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U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS

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No.*

U.S. Patent Document

Name of Patentee or
Applicant of Cited Doc.

Date of Pub. of

Cited Doc.
(mm-dd-yyyy)

Pages, Columns, Lines, Where Relevant Passages or
Relevant Figures Appear

Number

Kind Code 2
(if known)

AA

5,218,210

Mclntyre, Jr. et al.

06/08/1993

Entire Document

AB

5,846,883

Moslehi

12/08/1998

Entire Document

AC

2001/0047760

A1

Moslehi

12/06/2001

Entire Document

AD

6,488,807

B1

Collins et al.

02/03/2002

Entire Document

AE

6,552,295

B2

Markunas et al.

04/22/2003

Entire Document

AF

6,768,120

B2

Leung et al.

07/27/2004

Entire Document

AG

6,936,144

B2

Weiler et al.

08/30/2005

Entire Document

FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS

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Applicant of Cited
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Office 3

Number 4

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BA

GB

2 308 745

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Mitsubishi Denki
Kabushiki
Kaisha

07/02/1997

Entire Document

BB

WO

01/63981

A1

CCRGMBH
Beschichtungst
echno Logie

08/30/2001

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BC

BD

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